An invitation-only museum of items natural and bizarre, arcane and exotic.

The last of a gourmet supermarket chain, this store helped spark California's Food Revolution.

This magnificent mausoleum is as much a work of art as it is a historic resting place.

A unique market that brings together various goods and cultures.

This old-world mansion with lush gardens is a gem in the heart of Silicon Valley.

From buttons to beads, flounces to fripperies, this textile museum and shop honors the history of needlework.

A giant knight, sex education, date shakes, and Jesus coexist happily in this Coachella Valley desert oasis.

Malibu's first beach home features an astonishing trove of ceramic tiles.

This store is dedicated to unique found footage and the strangeness of pre-internet pop-culture.

This childhood throwback has hundreds of arcade games and pinball machines to transport you back in time.

This odd little museum holds exhibits on everything from blacksmith equipment to hair jewelry.

Spend a day hanging out with domesticated Russian foxes.

One of the oldest producers of hand-folded fortune cookies still uses its original secret recipe.

A huge collection of rocks, gems, and crystals.

Hike amid the palm trees that thrive among Southern California's Indio Hills.

The Citrus Variety Collection at UC Riverside contains two trees of each of the 1,000+ varieties of citrus.

Like a kitschy mirage in the Mojave, this eatery serves up classic 50s-style diner meals and a dinosaur sculpture garden.

This diner's a kitschy dreamland for anyone whose heart is stuck in the 1980s.

A bright California graveyard with a decidedly dark side.

The quirky salon doubles as a retro museum run by the world's leading "hairstorian."

Home of modern dancer famously strangled by her own scarf.

The capitol city's oldest existing cemetery.

Oakland's beautiful monumental cemetery.

This historic California cemetery holds the bodies of veterans of both the Civil War and the Donner Party.